Selecting the Right Digital Transformation Solutions for Your Bank mol.doak_zH4F Tue, 04/16/2024 - 15:15 Every business pursuing a digital transformation strategy sits somewhere on a continuum of implementation and adoption. Many banks are at the starting end of this continuum — the “toe in the water” phase, as described by the Journal of Financial Services Marketing. To reach the “freestyle swimming” (growth) phase and the “deep dive” (transformation) stage, banks must find and invest in the technologies that support their business goals. McKinsey notes that the best strategy is to refine a ..read more

Q&A: How Nutanix Helps Companies Navigate HCI Migration mol.doak_zH4F Mon, 04/15/2024 - 12:48 In November, Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware, and since then, many companies have been looking for alternatives to manage their hyperconverged infrastructure environments. To help them navigate this transition, Nutanix has launched a special VMware-to-Nutanix migration promotion. BizTech spoke with Lee Caswell, senior vice president of product and solutions marketing for Nutanix, about how the promotion works, what it offers and how it can help businesses manage their infrastructure ..read more

CDW Executive SummIT: Meeting Elevated User Expectations for the Digital Experience At the CDW Executive SummIT in Chicago, IT leaders considered the ways in which customers are demanding an enhanced experience from technology. Whether it's provided through the increased use of artificial intelligence or new and innovative uses of familiar hardware, tech users want a seamless experience that meets their needs and surpasses their expectations.  Find BizTech’s full coverage of the event here, follow our live news coverage of the CDW Executive SummIT on X (formerly Twitter) at @BizTechMagaz ..read more

CDW Executive SummIT: How to Get Executive Buy-In for Tech Initiatives IT leaders frequently face challenges in persuading the executives in their C-suite to fund new tech programs. But without the necessary funding, these organizations can't pursue innovative technology and risk falling behind the competition. At the CDW Executive SummIT in Chicago, IT leaders shared their experiences — some successful and others not — in getting corporate leadership's support for IT modernization efforts.  Find BizTech’s full coverage of the event here, follow our live news coverage of the CDW Exe ..read more

CDW Executive SummIT: How to Navigate the Data-Driven World of AI lily.lopate_dRm5 Thu, 04/04/2024 - 14:01 At this week’s CDW Executive SummIT on “Creating a More Agile and Secure Digital Experience,” hosted in Chicago, IT leaders learned that creating a competitive digital ecosystem requires the careful orchestration of tech, people and processes behind the scenes. For Paul Zajdel, vice president of data and analytics at CDW, the definition of agility is being “anti-fragile.” Fail fast and adapt quickly, he said, because at no point should innovation compromise efficiency. This means ze ..read more

What to Expect at the CDW Executive SummIT lily.lopate_dRm5 Mon, 04/01/2024 - 15:16 From April 2-4 at the Marriott Marquis in Chicago, IT leaders, experts and industry partners will gather for the biannual CDW Executive SummIT. The spring conference will focus on “Creating a More Agile and Secure Digital Experience,” and it promises to offer best practices on how to minimize risk as organizations embrace new technical innovations. Whether it’s an internal user navigating a data center, a customer accessing an app or an employee traveling between offices, the expectation is the same: Technolog ..read more

NVIDIA GTC 2024: How AI and HPC Are Creating a ‘New Frontier of Capital Markets’ lily.lopate_dRm5 Fri, 03/29/2024 - 14:28 A “new frontier of capital markets” is emerging, and it’s rooted in artificial intelligence, said Nikolai Larbalestier, senior vice president of cloud strategy and enterprise architecture at Nasdaq. At NVIDIA GTC 2024, hosted March 18-21 in San Jose, Calif., financial services was the largest industry in attendance — a sign of the technology’s rapid influence on market trends. “In a given day, we handle about 100 billion events, with latency measured at approximately 20 mi ..read more

Why Improving Customer Service Is the Goal of Most Digital Transformation mol.doak_zH4F Fri, 03/29/2024 - 14:21 The first decision that businesses face as they embark on a digital transformation journey is where to start. As we’ve seen over the years, the number of ways that technology can help an organization succeed is virtually unlimited. Resources, however, are not. Priorities must be set. But most business leaders tell me that setting those priorities comes down to answering a basic question: How can we do better by our customers? After all, no business survives without satisfied custome ..read more

How Retailers Can Refine Their AI Toolkits mol.doak_zH4F Fri, 03/22/2024 - 11:10 A generative AI toolkit should consist of everything a business needs to prepare for AI implementation and to sustain its efficient use going forward — and in retail, experts expect a big push toward AI adoption. “In the coming year, we expect to see more retailers embracing a meaningful generative AI toolkit,” says Paul Tepfenhart, global director, retail and consumer solutions at Google. “Whether it’s in profit-generating experiments or nationwide store rollouts, retailers will see results from their AI deploym ..read more

Deploying AI in 2024? Here’s Where Retailers Should Focus Bob.Keaveney_u64t Tue, 03/19/2024 - 13:28 When generative artificial intelligence started making headlines in 2022, IT decision-makers in the retail industry took notice. According to new research by Google Cloud, about 75 percent of U.S. ITDMs in the retail sector believe that the technology “can be practically deployed in their business” and that it will impact their industry this year. Generative AI is expected to drive this impact across five key areas in 2024: customer service automation, conversational commerce, product catalog m ..read more